Elon f*cks Twitter

[Innula Zenovka]

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts?

Social media platform faces $300m interest payment this week, and default could trigger debt restructuring – or bankruptcy

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Oh, the problems of buying a business that you decided you didn't want to buy.

Twitter hired experts for case against Musk—now Musk won’t pay them, lawsuit says

Company says it wasn't paid for work on lawsuit that forced Musk to complete merger.

arstechnica.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ vow to the test

Use of emergency laws sheds light on fragile and fractious place social media such as Twitter now occupy in country

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes suspended from Twitter one day after Elon Musk let him back on

Infamous neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes got his Twitter account reinstated on Tuesday, only to see it banned again a mere day later.Reuters reports that Fuentes' account got shut down on Wednesday after he used it to make multiple anti-Semitic remarks of the kind that got him suspended under Twitter's...

www.rawstory.com

It's almost like there was a good reason for the banning IN THE FIRST PLACE.

 

[Free]

If that's true, no wonder I hate it.

 

[Archer]

And he's been bringing back all the a-holes that have been banned from the other games.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

So Musk is now about six months already CEO and owner of Twitter. In this time he has roughly fired about 50% of the employees.

Did we notice this in terms of technical service becoming unstable, problems or other stuff? IMHO not. Twitter is still running pretty well, they are doing updated and also adding features now and the. So in other words from a technical perspective Twitter is still able to deliver, despite that 50% of the employees are gone now, which includes many developers.

This simple fact makes me really wonder how many of the employees that Musk did fire were in reality just working in bullshit jobs, meaning sitting there but doing not much nor thing valuable at all for the company. I guess we will never know, but it is really an intersting case study regardless.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

BBC protests after Twitter labels it ‘government-funded media’

Designation added to @BBC account at odds with corporation’s public funding model and constitutional independence

www.theguardian.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And the new Government Funded label directs to the old State-Affiliated description despite the significant difference between the two. It's either a complete misunderstanding of how media works or a deliberate attempt to undermine a number of well regarded media organizations.

Or both.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Boy King having tantrum over people self organizing a government instead of having a boy king.

 

[Khamon]

Twitter X ??? profitz ??? X ??? SRSLY/

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk BBC interview: Twitter boss on layoffs, misinfo and sleeping in the office

The Twitter boss defends his running of the firm in a hastily-arranged BBC interview.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Did we notice this in terms of technical service becoming unstable, problems or other stuff?

Yes.

Also, they don't have any bouncers to keep the Nazis out of their bar and are going to be fined 65% more than the company is worth for being a Nazi bar, but whatever.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Climate-sceptic accounts surge after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

The follower counts of climate change deniers on Twitter have boomed since Elon Musk bought the social media platform.UN officials warned of an “alarming flood”

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So much for Elon Musk’s everything app

Suspending emergency accounts, enabling anti-trans speech, and other stops Twitter is making in its pursuit of X

www.platformer.news

 

[Isabeau]

Along with NPR and BBC, CBC pulled out too.

CBC pauses Twitter activity after being labelled 'government-funded media'


I deleted my account a few days ago after having +/- stopped using it.

 

[WolfEyes]

I'm so glad I was never a Twit(terer).